Re: [O] Re: Test framework needed

[Eric Schulte]

Aankhen <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 20:43, Manuel Giraud
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Rainer M Krug <address@hidden> writes:
>> [snip]
>>
>>> Please correct me if I am missing something.
>>>
>>> This suite should actually be updated with effectively each patch which
>>> introduces new features and run after each patch.
>>
>> Which renders this framework far less automatic. I think that having a
>> set of org files against which one could try any export and *see* that
>> the results are almost correct would be enough.
>

I think an "automatic" solution would involve running a batch Emacs
process which loads up Org-mode and then loads and runs the existing
test suite.  This would be both easily automatable and would allow
testing of various versions of Emacs with relative ease.

Best -- Eric